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Anne Gilbert Chase

Mount Nilkantha, Indian Himalaya

Anne Gilbert Chase kicking it in some high altitude warm sunshine. JASON THOMPSON

ObscuredPerception

Obscured Perception

It was a calm, clear morning when Anne Gilbert Chase stood at the top of Nilkantha with her partners Chantel Astorga and Jason Thompson. She’d been thinking about this moment for three years, ever since she first found the isolated peak while poring through The American Alpine Journal and dreaming of an unclimbed line. The southwest face was beautiful and intimidating—1,400 meters of granite, ice and snow. Weather forced a retreat in 2015, but two years later the conditions worked in their favor. After five days of climbing, the trio spent five minutes at the top, before heading back down toward the valley below.

It was a calm, clear morning when Anne Gilbert Chase stood at the top of Nilkantha with her partners Chantel Astorga and Jason Thompson. She’d been thinking about this moment for three years, ever since she first found the isolated peak while poring through The American Alpine Journal and dreaming of an unclimbed line. The southwest face was beautiful and intimidating—1,400 meters of granite, ice and snow. Weather forced a retreat in 2015, but two years later the conditions worked in their favor. After five days of climbing, the trio spent five minutes at the top, before heading back down toward the valley below.

Luke Nelson

Nolan’s 14, Sawatch Range, Colorado

Luke Nelson and Jared Campbell tick off a classic Collegiate Peaks twofer, Mount Belford and Mount Oxford, while attempting to set a new Nolan's 14 FKT. FREDRIK MARMSATER

This is what you signed up for

This is what you signed up for

The worst moment came somewhere around hour 33. Luke Nelson and Jared Campbell stood on top of Missouri—just a little over halfway into their 53 hour and 29 minute Nolan’s 14 attempt—and Luke cracked. “I couldn’t identify the final summit, and I totally broke down,” he said. “I told Jared I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t go on. He just looked at me and said, ‘This is what you signed up for.

The worst moment came somewhere around hour 33. Luke Nelson and Jared Campbell stood on top of Missouri—just a little over halfway into their 53 hour and 29 minute Nolan’s 14 attempt—and Luke cracked. “I couldn’t identify the final summit, and I totally broke down,” he said. “I told Jared I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t go on. He just looked at me and said, ‘This is what you signed up for.

Alex Yoder

Northern, Norway

ANDREW MILLER

Waves and Snow

Waves and Snow

It took three years to put together, but Alex Yoder and the Gentemstick crew finally realized an idea for a three-week surf and snowboard trip in northern Norway. They slept in RVs and passed through sparsely populated towns—notorious for overwhelmingly smelly fish-drying operations—and kept the heat off to save propane. For the first three days they got lucky with waves and surfed water so cold that they wore baselayers under drysuits. With the snow conditions, they weren’t quite as lucky. The terrain was fun, but in the end, the avalanche danger was too high.

It took three years to put together, but Alex Yoder and the Gentemstick crew finally realized an idea for a three-week surf and snowboard trip in northern Norway. They slept in RVs and passed through sparsely populated towns—notorious for overwhelmingly smelly fish-drying operations—and kept the heat off to save propane. For the first three days they got lucky with waves and surfed water so cold that they wore baselayers under drysuits. With the snow conditions, they weren’t quite as lucky. The terrain was fun, but in the end, the avalanche danger was too high.